Operating tirelessly from its Jersey Avenue headquarters in Washington, D.C., the Department of Transportation issued formal guidelines last month on how the street-legal driverless cars of the future will operate. That 116-page document, the “Federal Automated Vehicles Policy,” includes a lot of common-sense rules: cars must adapt to local laws, be secure from cyber attacks, and of course, be safe in case of a crash. It also includes a less-than-intuitive guideline: self-driving cars need to be able to make ethical considerations while they're out on the road, and act on them.
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